Depending on how you reckon, you could argue it started much earlier than that. Some people say the downhill decline started with JFK, others say it started with Reagan.

They got it when the PATRIOT ACT was passed. That was the proof that all our rights and liberties are conditional, and Trump uses the revelation of that back then to pull off everything he is doing now

I would think the bailouts after the 2007 financial crisis destroyed more trust and lives than 9/11 and the Patriot Act.

If so, another terrible decision by our voting populace